More than 42,000 people on Friday received a COVID-19 vaccine shot, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday, adding that 500 local clinics would become vaccination centers by next month, while 1,000 would offer jabs by August.
The CECC on Thursday distributed 150,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to local governments, which provided them to frontline essential workers in Taipei and New Taipei City, as well as frontline healthcare professionals in other areas.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that people were much more enthusiastic to be vaccinated on Friday than before, as 42,920